looking for a good 3d printer

[Clive S]

Desertboy, so you mean that the inductive sensor will sense the aluminium table? I thought it only senses magnetic material. Also, how thick is your table?

Yes they will but you need the 8mm one

[cropwell]

I am always wary about axial sensing with inductive sensors, after crushing one. The coil at the end is quite delicate, even though it has a plastic shield.

[Desertboy]

Yes they will but you need the 8mm one

Yes the 4mm doesn't sense through the mirror and you also need to feed it 12v so if you have ramps you will need to wire 2 resistors to drop the output to 5v otherwise you fry the Arduino.

[AlexDoran]

I was thinking about releasing the designs to my printer, i had planned to build and sell these, but with so many cheap units flooding the market i decided it was probably not worth it, if anyone is interested i will go to the effort of updating the BOM's and finishing the documentation.

Cronos-FDM.uk

Thanks

Alex

[Greeny]

Inspired by this thread, and on a bit of a rush of blood, i decided to buy a Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wanhao-I3-...72.m2749.l2649
It arrived yesterday :-)

I'm a total 3d print noob, so the reasons i went for this particular one are:

• Was mentioned as a good choice in this thread.
• Price, £379.
• Generally positive reviews on internet & You Tube.

Overall I'm very impressed, for the money.
As I had already watched quite a few YouTube guides, assembly & setup was a breeze.
It took me about 45 mins from the box coming through the door to starting my first print. (the 'ok' hand that comes on the SD card)
The print quality is pretty good. Again i'm more than happy with it for the money paid.

I've printed a lens cap & gimbal mount for my camera using STL files downloaded from the internet(Thingiverse) and then used Cura to generate the G-Code
It was all relatively straightforward & again very happy with results

Next step is to try some of my own stuff drawn in Fusion 360.

It's worth pointing out that I have never even seen a 3d printer 'in the flesh' before this one, so don't take my impressions as worth much. I don't have anything to compare to!

The photo's are of my first few prints. They look better in real life than in the photos! (The white plastic doesn't seem to photograph very well)

I'm stoked
Cheers

[Ross77]

Inspired by this thread, and on a bit of a rush of blood, i decided to buy a Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wanhao-I3-...72.m2749.l2649
It arrived yesterday :-

Nice one, Kind of wishing I had just bought one now...

[Greeny]

Nice one, Kind of wishing I had just bought one now...

Swings & roundabouts i suppose

In terms of getting going quickly and ease of use, it's a winner.
However if building your own you will almost certainly end up with a better machine.

For the money paid I'm very happy with it, but it's definately built with parts supplied by the lowest bidder

[Ross77]

Does this look like a good controller? 32 bit with screen and replaceable drives

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motherboar...EAAOSwpHFZaYj9

[AlexDoran]

Does this look like a good controller? 32 bit with screen and replaceable drives

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motherboar...EAAOSwpHFZaYj9

What firmware is it supposed to use?

If you want a solution like that i am personally using MKS products, the MKS SBase and MKS TFT32. The S Base is a smoothieboard clone which obviously uses smoothieware. The TFT32 is a host controller and can also be fitted a Wi-Fi addon, smoothieware also has a web interface if you wanted to connect to it via ethernet.

Thanks

Alex

[Desertboy]

Does this look like a good controller? 32 bit with screen and replaceable drives

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motherboar...EAAOSwpHFZaYj9

The firmware for this can be found here
https://github.com/St3dPrinter/Marlin4ST